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When you watch as many Hallmark movies as I have watched, you start to notice those title sequences. That is where my fragile argument for a feminist reading of Hallmark movies begin.

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The women behind-the-scenes may be why HMU marquee actresses gush about working on set. Whether it is public relations spin or not, actresses like Lacey Chabert, Danica McKellar and Alicia Witt cannot say enough about how much they enjoy the environment on set. The schedule allows them to practice their trade and have families. The network head encourages family-friendly work schedules. Directors happily shoot around late-stage pregnancies. If you have kids, HMU sounds like a good work culture:

It is that time of the year. I am deep in my Hallmark Christmas movie grind. Between judging the banality of cults of femininity and laughing at Kellie Pickler, I want to make the case for Hallmark movies as feminist* fare.

The HMU doesn’t do as great across the line with women directors as I would have thought they did. In 2019, only 8 percent of the movies on that same Christmas list were directed by women. If anyone took HMU seriously, they might look at why that is…

In the Hallmark Movie Universe (HMU) you are guaranteed to hear a woman speak in every single movie. She may not say much but your ears are going to hear a female voice for 62 straight minutes.

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Women in the Hallmark Movie Universe may give it all up to marry a plumber in Evergreen, Oregon because he buys her a Christmas tree. But on a few important measures like women who speak and women who put words in people’s mouths, HMU behind-the-scenes scores “feminist” points.

A basic “big feminist” claim is that women in leadership matter to women’s work environment. Research mostly supports that idea, albeit with several notable caveats. Not all women like other women. A single woman in charge doesn’t really make a difference in pay, status or work culture for women writ large. A single female leadership hire can, in fact, be more hostile to other women to defend her fragile turf. The biggie, of course, is that “women” is an overly-broad category that covers up a host of -isms that women inflict on other women. Still, women-led organizations tend to report greater work satisfaction and opportunity for women down the line.

These title sequences feel like they feature a lot of women’s names. These are not just the actresses but the producer, director, casting, scriptwriters and so on. Women directed only 10 percent of major Hollywood movies in 2019…and that was an increase so significant that it warranted news coverage:

The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film says that 19% of Hollywood’s screenwriters (in the top 100 grossing films) in 2019. And, women don’t get to talk much in Hollywood productions. Just 34% of named female characters from the same list and year…actually speak words.

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Contrast that with women’s horror stories on mainstream television and movie sets. You can literally do a basic google search of “breastfeeding harassment in Hollywood”, like I did. It is that bad. I have a particular distaste for Brad Kern from CBS:

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Hallmark movies are not feminist, except in that vague nonsensical way in which anything with a woman in it is somehow feminist. The scripts trade in every trope of unexamined whiteness, class warfare, gender conformity and patriarchal family norms. I watch them because there is no subtext and no surprises. There are only three things that turn off my critical survival lens and Hallmark movies are one of the three. I suspect that is because I do not need a single new skill to anticipate them. That’s because: